2 Kings 3:14

3:14 Elisha said, “As certainly as the Lord who rules over all ¹ lives (whom I serve),² if I did not respect King Jehoshaphat of Judah,³ I would not pay attention to you or acknowledge you.⁴

2 Kings 5:11

5:11 Naaman went away angry. He said, “Look, I thought for sure he would come out, stand there, invoke the name of the Lord his God, wave his hand over the area, and cure the skin disease.

2 Kings 5:15

5:15 He and his entire entourage returned to the prophet. Naaman⁵ came and stood before him. He said, “For sure⁶ I know that there is no God in all the earth except in Israel! Now, please accept a gift from your servant.”

2 Kings 8:9

8:9 So Hazael went to visit Elisha.⁷ He took along a gift,⁸ as well as⁹ forty camel loads of all the fine things of Damascus. When he arrived, he stood before him and said, “Your son,¹⁰ King Ben Hadad of Syria, has sent me to you with this question,¹¹ ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”

2 Kings 9:17

9:17 Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel and saw Jehu’s troops approaching.¹² He said, “I see troops!”¹³ Jehoram ordered,¹⁴ “Send a rider out to meet them and have him ask, ‘Is everything all right?’”¹⁵

2 Kings 10:9

10:9 In the morning he went out and stood there. Then he said to all the people, “You are innocent. I conspired against my master and killed him. But who struck down all of these men?

2 Kings 11:14

11:14 Then she saw¹⁶ the king standing by the pillar, according to custom. The officers stood beside the king with their trumpets and all the people of the land were celebrating and blowing trumpets. Athaliah tore her clothes and screamed, “Treason, treason!”¹⁷

2 Kings 15:20

15:20 Menahem got this silver by taxing all the wealthy men in Israel; he took fifty shekels of silver from each one of them and paid it to the king of Assyria.¹⁸ Then the king of Assyria left; he did not stay there in the land.

¹tn Traditionally “the Lord of hosts.”

²tn Heb “before whom I stand.”

³tn Heb “if I did not lift up the face of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah.”

⁴tn Heb “I would not look at you or see you.”

⁵tn Heb “he”; the referent (Naaman) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶tn Heb “look.”

⁹tn Heb “him”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁰tn The Hebrew text also has “in his hand.”

¹¹tn Heb “and.” It is possible that the conjunction is here explanatory, equivalent to English “that is.” In this case the forty camel loads constitute the “gift” and one should translate, “He took along a gift, consisting of forty camel loads of all the fine things of Damascus.”

¹²sn The words “your son” emphasize the king’s respect for the prophet.

¹³tn Heb “saying.”

¹³tn Heb “the quantity [of the men] of Jehu, when he approached.” Elsewhere שִׁפְעַה (shif’ah), “quantity,” is used of a quantity of camels (Isa 60:6) or horses (Ezek 26:10) and of an abundance of water (Job 22:11; 38:34).

¹⁴tn The term שִׁפְעַת (shifat) appears to be a construct form of the noun, but no genitive follows.

¹⁵tn Heb “said.”

¹⁶tn Heb “Get a rider and send [him] to meet him and let him ask, ‘Is there peace?’”

¹⁷tn Heb “and she saw, and look.”

¹⁸tn Or “conspiracy, conspiracy.”

²¹tn Heb “and Menahem brought out the silver over Israel, over the prominent men of means, to give to the king of Assyria, fifty shekels of silver for each man.”